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How to pronounce perspire in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sudate, sweat
Type of egest, eliminate, excrete, pass
Has types swelter
Derivation perspiration

Examples of perspire

perspire
But as the players perspire, some panels turn dark, creating a two-tone pattern.
From the businessweek.com
But with the UN leaving with the job half done, nothing will perspire soon enough.
From the economist.com
His face begins to perspire, and his fingers start to tremble as they turn the pages.
From the denverpost.com
They become lightheaded, perspire and produce a large amount of saliva.
From the stltoday.com
It's a sweltering summer night, one of those evenings when the very air seems to perspire.
From the timesunion.com
He began to perspire and stammer, suddenly making excuses that he had to get back to work.
From the time.com
Even in freezing weather, we perspire, and a cold, wet cotton garment just makes us colder.
From the al.com
Do you know of any medical treatment or medication that would allow my husband to perspire?
From the dailyherald.com
I'm also amazed by the femme fatales'enticing glow, yet they don't appear to even perspire.
From the smh.com.au
More examples
  • Sweat: excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat"
  • (perspiration) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his brow"
  • (perspiring) The act of producing perspiration; Of a person or animal that is producing perspiration; sweating
  • (Perspiration (Sweat, Diaphoresis)) Sweator diaphoresis. Some people who have OI appear to perspire more heavily than others experiencing the same room temperature.
  • (Perspiration) Spontaneous evaporation or (less often) vaporization through heating. Also used to indicate condensation of moisture on a relatively cool body.
  • (Perspiration) To dream that you are in a perspiration, foretells that you will come out of some difficulty, which has caused much gossip, with new honors.
  • (Perspiration) Unlike humans, birds do not regulate their body temperature with dermal sweat glands that secrete perspiration. Instead, they thermoregulate by giving off excess heat in the form of water vapor, mainly by panting. ...